How to read a shutdown trace from NETSH and WPRUI to home in on what PID is doing what network traffic at shutdown

So in my last post, I described a method for homing in on who is doing what on the network whilst a machine is shutting down. I expect some, a few, random noise data points…

How to collect a netsh and WPR trace for shutdown specific symptoms

In the event you have something that only impacts an endpoint when it is being logged off/shutdown, you can do the following to collect declarative data. mkdir C:\temp cd C:\temp netsh trace start capture=yes correlation=yes l…

Raiding YouTube for WoW Data: Building a Smarter Scraper (Part 3) The Key to Scraping YouTube: Planning an Efficient Route In our last run, our scraper successfully raided the WoW-only channels, defeating bosses and amassing a wealth of comments. But no…

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AMD User Experience Proxy and handle leaks This is an odd fellow here. As you can see in the image below, AUEPMaster has 157k handles. Yesterday it had over 1 million but I failed to capture a screenshot before reboot. This hasn't impacted game performance as far as I can tell, just an annoyance. Wondering if it's actually working as intended, does it have a security hole, etc...

AMD User Experience Proxy and handle leaks

This is an odd fellow here. As you can see in the image below, AUEPMaster has 157k handles. Yesterday it had over 1 million but I failed to capture a screenshot before reboot. This hasn't impacted game performance as far as I can tell, just an annoyance.…

Thanks for this

PSA: Dell Peripheral Manager causes zombie processes DPM causes zombie processes, software version 2.0.0.72

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Can't wait for this to release!

Check out Aaron Margosis' writeup on CVE-2013-3900, the blast from the past that never really remediated.

Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy This is the biggest investigation we’ve ever published.

Trump's promise of mass deportation has caused private prison stock to soar. Time to re-read Shane Bauer's incredible investigation where he went undercover for months as a private prison guard. It's long, it's harrowing, it won all the awards: www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

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How We Harnessed LLMs for Security and Why Testing is Our Secret Weapon Large language models (LLMs) are potent tools, however, their default configurations often fall short in providing the accuracy and consistency required for reliable, critical analysis. In this post, ...

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I’m saying it now with hopes that it sinks in: Donald Trump cannot take any oath of office until he is granted amnesty for breaking the last one he swore. That’s just straight up in the Constitution. 2/3 of each House. That’s the bar.

BREAKING: Gaetz withdraws from consideration for attorney general.

Gootloader’s Pivot from SEO Poisoning: PDF Converters Become the New Infection Vector Three weeks ago, Gootloader samples suddenly dried up. This has happened before, so I switched VPNs and tried new locations—coffee shops, friends’, and family’s Wi-Fi networks—but still couldn’t re…

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BREAKING NEWS:

The Matt Gaetz file has officially been leaked:

An “unknown and unauthorized third party” has gained access to depositions tied to Matt Gaetz, a source says.

RT if you’re ready to see it. 🍿

Meet a coworker for lunch yesterday, he had a passenger

It worked for me a week ago

The rise of Bluesky, and the splintering of social Welcome to The Debrief with Mat Honan, your weekly take on the tech news that really matters, links to stories we love, and the occasional recommendation.

The rise of Bluesky and Threads, coupled with the fleeing of users from X, suggests a long-term shift away from centralized social media.

Yeah dunno but that was a fun game to watch, for a change :D

I'm happy to have found you here

Please follow

Yeah I deleted my x account last night after archiving it

Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' First true sign of AGI – blowing a fuse with a frustrating user?

Wow Gemini was cranky! www.theregister.com/2024/11/15/g...

I'm this old

I like them, great smile too :D

What is the best thing that has ever happened to you for being nice? Jeff Stokes's answer: I had a blind request on LinkedIn a few years ago. A police officer in a small-ish college town asking if I could help mentor him in the IT field. I agreed because he seemed pass...

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If you are in cybersecurity repost this so we can all follow each other 😬

Wow